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Because of the high approximation power and simplicity of computation of smooth radial basis functions (RBFs), in recent decades they have received much attention for function approximation. These RBFs contain a shape parameter that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-23 Fatemeh Pooladi , Hossein Hosseinzadeh

Since the advent of mesh-free methods as a tool for the numerical analysis of systems of Partial Differential Equations (PDEs), many variants of differential operator approximation have been proposed. In this work, we propose a local…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-07 Mitja Jančič , Gregor Kosec

The boundary integral method is an efficient approach for solving time-harmonic acoustic obstacle scattering problems. The main computational task is the evaluation of an oscillatory boundary integral at each discretization point of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-09-17 Lexing Ying

This note carries three purposes involving our latest advances on the radial basis function (RBF) approach. First, we will introduce a new scheme employing the boundary knot method (BKM) to nonlinear convection-diffusion problem. It is…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 W. Chen , W. He

Scattered data fitting is a frequently encountered problem for reconstructing an unknown function from given scattered data. Radial basis function (RBF) methods have proven to be highly useful to deal with this problem. We describe two…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-21 Lingxia Cui , Hua Xiang

We present a comprehensive study of radial basis function (RBF) approximations for elliptic and obstacle-type boundary value problems under a variational formulation. Our focus is on practical accuracy, robustness and efficiency. To address…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Tan Phuong Dong Le , Giang Tran , Hans De Sterck

In this paper, we present a spectral method based on Radial Basis Functions (RBFs) for numerically solving the fully nonlinear 1D Serre Green-Naghdi equations. The approximation uses an RBF discretization in space and finite differences in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-07-17 Maurice S. Fabien

Solving partial differential equations (PDEs) on manifolds defined by randomly sampled point clouds is a challenging problem in scientific computing and has broad applications in various fields. In this paper, we develop a two-step…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-17 Rongji Li , Haichuan Di , Shixiao Willing Jiang

In this work, we propose an adaptive radial basis function (RBF) approach for the efficient solution of multidimensional spatiotemporal integrodifferential equations. Our approach can automatically adjust the shape of RBFs and provide an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Mingtao Xia , Qijing Shen

Neural radiance fields (NeRF) rely on volume rendering to synthesize novel views. Volume rendering requires evaluating an integral along each ray, which is numerically approximated with a finite sum that corresponds to the exact integral…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Mikaela Angelina Uy , Kiyohiro Nakayama , Guandao Yang , Rahul Krishna Thomas , Leonidas Guibas , Ke Li

This work illustrates the possibility to apply the Fast Fourier Transformation to obtain the integrals of the Boundary Element Method (BEM) on arbitrary shapes. The procedure is inspired by the technique used with great success within the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-09-05 Justus Benad

Constrained radial basis function (RBF) regression has recently emerged as a powerful meshless tool for reconstructing continuous velocity fields from scattered flow measurements, particularly in image-based velocimetry. However, existing…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-27 Damien Rigutto , Manuel Ratz , Miguel A. Mendez

In this paper, we define new unfitted finite element methods for numerically approximating the solution of surface partial differential equations using bulk finite elements. The key idea is that the $n$-dimensional hypersurface, $\Gamma…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-21 Klaus Deckelnick , Charles M. Elliott , Thomas Ranner

We propose two localized Radial Basis Function (RBF) methods, the Radial Basis Function Partition of Unity method (RBF-PUM) and the Radial Basis Function generated Finite Differences method (RBF-FD), for solving financial derivative pricing…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2018-08-20 Slobodan Milovanović , Victor Shcherbakov

One of the most popular methods employed in computational electromagnetics is the Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) method. We generalise it to a meshless setting using the Radial Basis Function generated Finite Difference (RBF-FD)…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 Andrej Kolar-Požun , Gregor Kosec

We present a simple algorithm for differentiable rendering of surfaces represented by Signed Distance Fields (SDF), which makes it easy to integrate rendering into gradient-based optimization pipelines. To tackle visibility-related…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Zichen Wang , Xi Deng , Ziyi Zhang , Wenzel Jakob , Steve Marschner

A machine-learnable variational scheme using Gaussian radial basis functions (GRBFs) is presented and used to approximate linear problems on bounded and unbounded domains. In contrast to standard mesh-free methods, which use GRBFs to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-10 Jonas A. Actor , Anthony Gruber , Eric C. Cyr , Nathaniel Trask

The meshless/meshfree radial basis function (RBF) method is a powerful technique for interpolating scattered data. But, solving large RBF interpolation problems without fast summation methods is computationally expensive. For RBF…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-27 Wei Zhao , Martin Stoll

When solving partial differential equations on scattered nodes using the Radial Basis Function generated Finite Difference (RBF-FD) method, one of the parameters that must be chosen is the stencil size. Focusing on Polyharmonic Spline RBFs…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-26 Andrej Kolar-Požun , Mitja Jančič , Miha Rot , Gregor Kosec

One commonly finds in applications of smooth radial basis functions (RBFs) that scaling the kernels so they are `flat' leads to smaller discretization errors. However, the direct numerical approach for computing with flat RBFs (RBF-Direct)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-04 Grady B. Wright , Bengt Fornberg